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The Problems of Utilitarianism
by Uther Pendragon
anon584c@nyx.net
with help from Kitty (Irishlass68@yahoo.com)
and John Stuart Mill
Johanna Mill was five foot four and on the pill. When her father
saw the pill case drop from her purse, he blew his top. "How
could you?" he thundered. "Has all the time and effort that I
put into your education gone to waste."
"Hardly. I haven't had sex yet, and you wouldn't have found this
out if my purse hadn't spilled. You are not considering this
rationally. Frankly, I don't expect to have sex any time soon;
but I know too many girls who had unexpected and unprotected sex.
I'm not going to risk that just to preserve your illusions. I
haven't needed the pills, but it would cause both of us a good
deal of unhappiness if I needed them and weren't taking them.
I'm an adult now, and I'll make my decisions in a responsible
manner. Don't you trust your years of teaching?"
"I really feel that I should have put more emphasis on sexual
ethics."
"Well it is too late now," Johanna said, "unless you have been
instantly converted to the lecture method. I'm not going to
discuss my sexual preferences and desires with my father. It is
too embarrassing, not to mention vaguely incestuous."
"Would you discuss this issue?"
"With you? Not on your life."
"With someone else who could point out the moral consequences of
your decisions," Dr. Mills said. "This is an issue where
rationalizing can look a lot like rationality to the person doing
it."
"You mean like a man rationalizing his desire to have his
daughter remain a little girl into some great ethical principle?
Look, if you hadn't engaged in sex, I wouldn't be here arguing
about it with you.
"It's not worth discussing" she continued. "If you want me to
talk to a doctor or some woman counselor, I will. I'm your
daughter, anyway; if I'm rationalizing, I'm good enough so that
no one but a logician will find out."
"How about Mr. Bentham? You respect him, I respect him. He
isn't a fond papa hating to see his daughter grow up."
"Talk to Mr. Bentham about sex?"
"Why not? He'll talk about anything. And we both respect his
moral judgment."
The discussion took another two days, and it took another week to
make the appointment. By the time it came, however, both of them
were satisfied with the arrangements.
"Come in Johanna," said Mr. Bentham. "It's nice to see you
again. Now let me get the ground rules straight."
"I talk to you, you give me your guidance. What I say to you is
private. I don't guarantee to follow your advice, and my father
won't know what it is. Neither you nor I tell him anything. On
the other hand, both he and I respect you tremendously. I know
that you'll be objective, Dad knows that you'll not give way to
popular culture."
"I can't express how much James' trust gladdens me, but I really
would have expected it. Your's gladdens me all the more because
it surprises me. Well, have a seat and fill me in." She took a
chair, and he sat on the couch opposite her. "You are what now?"
"Almost eighteen."
"Then you'll be graduating soon."
"I graduated last year. From college. I'm in a graduate program
in economics now."
"Oh yes, James' educational program."
"Which makes all of this a little silly. Either the boys won't
look at me because I'm too young, or they look at me with horror
because I'm too bright. Some of them do both."
"Dissatisfaction with one's looks is more a matter of being
eighteen than of how one actually looks. I would describe your
appearance as delectable. Are you telling me that a girl as
pretty as you isn't asked on dates?"
"It isn't that bad now. But all three college years were a mess.
Look, a high-school freshman is awkward. Compared to the
freshman *boys*, however, a girl is a social paragon. I should
have been going to the school dance with a boy who hoped I would
let him kiss me good night. I was in college at that age, with
boys who wondered if their girls would go all the way. I was
jailbait. Flat-chested jailbait."
"Neither is true any longer."
"Sure. My second year, I blossomed physically. I was already in
class with seniors. They had their relationships worked out for
the most part, but I hadn't been kissed seriously. I did start
going out in the spring. I dated more men, and had fewer second
dates, than any other girl in my classes. We would have a meal
or go to a campus event, park a while, kiss a while. He would
want to go further than I would. After two or three dates, he
would give up and go after another girl."
"And you didn't find that satisfactory? If what you wanted was
mild dates, it seems to me you were having mild dates."
"Well, Mr. Bentham..."
"Jeremy, please. We have known each other for fifteen years,
even if we haven't seen each other often."
"Well, Jeremy, I didn't want to go even as far as I went. But I
wanted to want to go much farther. Does that make any sense?"
All he did was nod. "So I talked to some of the girls, mostly
ones who were in permanent relationships. They were nice. I
think that they were happy to have some arena where they were
ahead of me. And, after a while, I restricted my requests for
advice to those who looked happy about their lives."
"That makes sense."
"What most of them told me was that they had set limits, and then
a boy--not necessarily the one whom they were dating at the time
they told me this--swept them far past their limits. That's when
I decided to go on the pill. If I meet the boy who can sweep me
over my limits, I won't get a baby out of it."
"I can understand your father's being upset, but it seems a quite
rational decision to me."
"That's my problem. I'm too rational."
"How so?"
"No boy is going to sweep me over my limits by whispering in my
ear, nor by telling me how he'll die if we don't have sex, nor
even by great sexual technique. I've lived all my short life by
rationality, and I'm not dropping it now! Even though I
sometimes want to."
"But you're unhappy with your present situation?"
"Very much so."
"Tell me. When the boy kisses you, do you enjoy it?"
"Sometimes."
"And when he caresses your breasts?"
"If I let him, I always enjoy it. I don't like to be grabbed."
Sometimes the sensations had surpassed 'enjoyed.' She recalled
the last date with Howard. Even today, the memory of her ecstasy
while he sucked on her breast dampened her center. And even
today, the memory of why it was the last date dampened her
spirits.
"And do you enjoy the next stage? When does your enjoyment
stop?"
"I don't enjoy emotional arguments. That is what comes soon
after. I'll be honest with you; sometimes I enjoy being
caressed on my legs, even between them. But when his hand gets
that far, we are about to have a fight about going to bed. And
worrying about that spoils all my pleasure."
"Let me try an experiment. Come over here and sit by me." She
did as he asked. "Now, I'm going to give you a kiss. Tell me if
a kiss from even an old man is pleasurable."
He kissed lightly over her mouth and chin before settling in for
a long kiss. She returned it until he broke their juncture. He
kissed her forehead. "Did you enjoy that?" he asked while
putting his glasses on the end table.
She was a little flushed. "Let's repeat the experiment to check
the result." She had enjoyed it, the pleasure of the sensation
nearly matched the compliment of an admired man's attention.
He had to get his chuckles under control before he could. She
took the opportunity to remove her glasses and put them next to
his. He kissed lightly on her lips before slipping his tongue
between them. The taste of his tongue on hers was a renewed
thrill. When he withdrew it, it was to explore the insides of
her lips.
When he drew her towards his lap, she rose and followed the
silent directions of his arms. She was surprised, though, to
find herself facing mostly away. He moved her hair aside to kiss
the back of her neck, and she shivered. His mouth moved over
that area, kissing, blowing, licking her skin from the back of
her ear, to the nook where her shoulder met her neck, to the
vertebrae. She didn't know where his mouth would land next, but
she became certain that she would enjoy it.
His hand traveled up the inside of her right arm, and then down
her side. He stopped kissing her when he slid it forward. Given
a clear choice, she pulled his hand away and held it in hers.
"Father wouldn't like this," she said.
"Would you enjoy it, though?"
"I think so, but we need to consider his happiness as well."
"I am. Would he wish to believe that you would find pleasure
from my hand, but that you had refused the pleasure?"
"I don't know."
"I think it unlikely," he said. "A sacrifice which does not
increase, or tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, he
would count as wasted. So, he does not wish that you sacrifice
the happiness which petting would bring you; he wishes that you
were still a young girl who would find no happiness in petting at
all."
"I think that is close to the mark," she conceded.
"And since that wish is contrafactual, we cannot give him the
reality. By being reasonably discreet, however, we can leave
his belief undamaged. Or, at least, we can leave it as
undamaged as it was after he found your container of pills."
"Is illusion ever a pleasure?"
"Disillusion is often a pain. But I think that concealing the
action is neither more difficult nor more dishonest than
concealing the fact that you would have enjoyed it."
"You are right," she said, and placed his hand on her breast. He
kissed her neck again before moving his hand. They sat like that
for a while: he stroking, nuzzling, licking her ear, hefting her
breast, blowing across her hair, tickling her nipple through
blouse and bra. Her feelings went from pleasant excitement to
desire, and then to need.
She pushed his hand away and half rose. Before he could react,
she returned to his lap, facing him as much as the couch would
allow. "My turn!" was all she said. Not bothering to copy his
gentle approach, she drew his head forward and pressed her lips
onto his. She waited a moment after she opened her mouth; but,
when his tongue stayed back, she stretched hers to find it. The
kiss was long and dizzying, especially since she could hardly
breathe in that position.
"And when is it my turn again?" he asked when she broke for air.
"It might be better if we both participated."
"So it might," he said. He pecked a kiss on her chin. His hands
caressed her side and back before coming around to find the
buttons on her blouse. He wasn't grabbing. She knew that she
could stop him, but did she want to? Apparently not, since they
sat there staring into each other's eyes until the blouse was
undone to her waistband. She pulled it out and unbuttoned the
last button herself.
This time, he held her face in his hands and drew her into his
kiss. He nibbled at her nose for a minute, and brushed her lips
with his before licking them. His fingers played with her ears
while his tongue explored her mouth. He pushed her back gently
and gazed into her eyes again before brushing her blouse off her
shoulders. She had to unbutton the cuffs before she could remove
it completely.
While her hands were doing that, she pushed her shoes off and
moved her feet onto the sofa. When they kissed again, she was
facing him even more directly. In that position, she could feel
his erection against her left thigh. She hoped briefly that he
wasn't going to press it against her like an importunate
undergraduate. When he had unsnapped her bra, he cuddled her to
him and deepened the kiss. His other hand tickled on her stomach
before it reached her breast. It soon tickled there, as well.
Her left breast was beginning to feel lonely when he broke the
kiss and urged her up. He moved forwards on the couch until she
was standing between his knees. After removing her bra
completely, he buried his head between her breasts and kissed her
sternum. After a long period of that embrace, he kissed both
breasts and then kissed a line up her chest and neck to return to
her lips. He rose during that kiss, and ended with a little peck
on her forehead.
Standing, he towered over her. "This will really work better, if
you lie down here," he said. "Where should we put your clothes?"
She moved the blouse from the couch to the end table that didn't
hold any eyeglasses. For an instant, she wondered if he wanted
her to take off the rest of her clothes, and whether she should
if he asked. Instead, he helped her lie down on the couch and
gave her a throw-pillow for her head. He knelt on the floor next
to her.
Touching the crown of her head with one hand and her chin with
the other, he moved her head from side to side as he scattered
kisses over her face. He brushed across her eyebrows, and her
ear, and her nose before settling down at her mouth for a serious
kiss. While his tongue played with hers, his hand passed over
her arm and torso before settling on her left breast. This he
clasped for a long moment before his finger rose up to touch her
already-turgid nipple. "Oh Jo-jo!" he sighed. It was the first
time that she had heard her baby name in years, but she liked the
sound of it coming from him.
Now her right breast was missing the attention. After a long
kiss and a trail of kisses down her cheek and throat and chest,
he finally reached it with his mouth. The nipple strained for
his attention while he licked lightly over her areola, then
slipped gratefully into his warm mouth.
His hand went on another journey while he sucked her nipple and
blew on it and rubbed it between his lips. It went first down
her side and her left leg, then over to her right knee. He broke
his play with her nipple. "Could you rise a little," he said.
"I think that your skirt is too tight." She lifted her hips and
pulled the skirt towards her waist. He pulled the top to tighten
the material under her. She thought that ought to give enough
room for his hand, but he said: "Do that again."
When she did, he ignored her skirt to kiss her taut abdomen. She
collapsed down in laughter. "It's not funny," he said. "Your
belly looks adorably sexy when you lift yourself like that." He
blew across her still-shaking navel. Then his kisses strayed
upwards, passing her lowest ribs on his way to the bottom of her
breast. Instead of returning to that nipple, he kissed the
bottom of her left breast. By slow degrees, his lips climbed it
until he reached that peak. Only then did his hand begin
stroking upward over her panty-hose. The palm warmed her right
thigh as it approached the juncture, and then his nails lightly
tickled her left as he returned downward. Meanwhile he teased
her nipple with tiny licks, light breath blowing across it, and
the gentlest of sucks.
When he finally reached her groin, however, he clasped it while
he sucked the whole top of her breast into his mouth. She gasped
at the thrill that ran through her. He stroked her through
panty-hose and panties while alternately kissing one breast then
another. She grew hotter and hotter until she couldn't keep her
hips from moving under his hand.
He made one of his rare excursions to her mouth while clasping
her again. Her movements now provided the friction. "Darling
girl," he asked, "if I promise that we won't have an emotional
argument, could I remove these impediments to my hand?"
If he didn't remove them soon, she would have to do it herself.
She nodded. His erection was obvious when he stood up, but
neither of them mentioned it. He pulled down her panty-hose
while she lifted her hips. Surprisingly, the panties didn't go
with them. He whipped the pantyhose through the air to
straighten them out before placing them on her other clothes.
She pushed her panties down to her knees while he was doing that.
He smiled as he removed them the rest of the way. "Touch but
don't look. Is that the rule?"
She had actually been trying to speed the process; but
considering it now, that rule appealed to her. She nodded.
At least he didn't repeat the stroke-up-and-down delay now that
she was open to him. His hand brushed up her thigh once, and
then he clasped the junction again. "Oh, Jo-jo," he said. He
kissed her mouth deeply and then licked each nipple once. "Let
me tell you how silken your hair feels. And the delicacy of the
tiny slick edge of your inner lips. I would like to see their
beauty, but I can feel enough beauty to satisfy any man." She
knew that he was feeling it. One finger ran very lightly between
her outer lips and just tickled the sensitive rim of her inner
ones. She wanted to pull his hand against her until he crushed
those lips. In place of that, she pulled his head against her
breast. He responded by sucking there, but his hand still
brushed her very lightly.
Finally, he parted her labia and inserted one finger. Starting
at the very back of her valley, he stroked upwards. He paused in
the middle and returned via the sensitive outer edge of her lips.
Each stroke moved slightly higher until she was moving her hips
to bring her center of sensitivity across his finger. This
failed of its intent, and the failure left her in an agony of
need. Finally, he sucked hard on her nipple just as his finger
crossed her clitoris. She moaned.
He kissed her mouth briefly but fiercely. Then he moved to her
other breast as his finger resumed its slow strokes. By now the
motion of her hips' was beyond her control. Then they rose and
stayed off the couch as every muscle in her frame tightened. His
finger circled her clitoris as she shook in delight. Then he
held her there as she gasped for breath. "Oh Jo-jo, sweet Jo-
jo," he said.
"Just Jo." She could have bitten her tongue. Such a sweet man,
such a sweet moment, and she had to spoil it over a detail of
name.
"What?"
"My name is 'Jo' now. Or 'Johanna,' but I'd rather you called me
'Jo.'"
"Then I shall. Lovely, lovely Jo."
"It's I who should be praising you. I never felt like that.
It's not at all so strong when I do it to my..."
"Darling girl! You are blushing. I know that you do it
yourself. Otherwise, you would not be half so responsive to my
hand. And I love your responsiveness. Don't be ashamed. It
certainly gave you pleasure; the results give me pleasure. Who
was hurt?"
"I've thought that out for myself. Not the part about you. I'm
not really ashamed of doing it, but having others know about it
makes me ashamed. And then I'm ashamed of being ashamed.
And..."
"Well," he said. "If it is any comfort, I enjoyed your blush.
Which might be selfish of me, but maybe you won't be ashamed of
being ashamed if you know that your blushes increase the
happiness of at least one other person."
"If we're going to talk instead of.... If we are just going to
talk, I think it would be better if I got dressed."
"I won't stop you if you insist, but I don't think that we are
finished with our other forms of communication."
"I'm not sure that I want to... I don't think I'm ready yet
for..."
"Actual intercourse?"
"Yes. I mean, that is the word that I was looking for."
"Oh? I thought that it was the word that you were avoiding.
Dear girl, you are blushing again." She could feel the blush.
It was bad enough that he could see through her words. Having
him see all her skin was too much. She pushed against his chest,
and he let her up. She draped her blouse across her front.
"Could I go somewhere else to get dressed again?"
"If you insist, but there is much more that we could do without
penetration. I think, in any event, that our *conversation* is
not over."
"Compromise," she said and slipped the blouse on. She buttoned
it over her unencumbered breasts. The blouse stuck to her
nipples, and she realized that they were still wet. He looked
away when he saw her embarrassment.
"Another compromise," he said. "I shall not look at you, but
I'll sit like this. He faced forward with his hand stretched
across the back of the couch. "You remember that I would rather
have you closer to me. When you feel comfortable with doing so,
move closer."
"I decide how close to sit? Why is that a compromise?"
"Because, dear Johanna, you are an honest person. If you say
that you will do it, you will come as close as feels comfortable,
with no false modesty. Now tell me your objection towards full
sexual intercourse. It can't be pregnancy, is it the fear of
disease?"
"That is part of it with some of the boys I date." She wasn't
being as honest as he'd credited her with being. "But not any
large part. I talked with many classmates. Women, I mean.
Almost none of them had stopped sex for very long periods after
they had begun. Some did because they didn't have anyone, some
did because they were committed to someone who was elsewhere, but
those talked of the unhappiness of that absence. It's almost a
one-way street. I want to be very careful before I take it."
"Let me see if I understand what you are saying. Is it that most
of your female classmates who have experienced both intercourse
and abstention prefer intercourse?"
That was a marvel of understatement. "Something like that."
"Yet, that very observation could argue in favor of 'taking that
street.' What means are there of determining which is the
intensest of two pleasurable sensations except the general
suffrage of those who have experienced both? What is there to
decide whether a particular pleasure is worth purchasing at the
cost of a particular pain, except the feelings and judgment of
the experienced? In this case, the experienced seem to have
voted heavily on one side without persuading you."
"I believe that the intellectual pleasures are higher, if not so
intense."
"And I believe this as well. But are you forced to choose? Some
of the women that you consulted chose the pleasure of loyalty
over the more intense pleasure of intercourse, and I would not
try to gainsay them. But are you gaining that pleasure? To whom
does your continence demonstrate loyalty?"
"Well, there is always my father. He would prefer me a virgin."
"And a virgin, moreover, completely devoid of desire. Is that
your reason for abstinence? That doesn't match the discussion
which led to your coming here."
"No, it does not," she admitted. She liked to think of herself
as one who acted on rational decisions, but she wasn't showing
that side of her today. Suddenly remembering her earlier
promise, she moved to his side and pulled his hand down to her
shoulder. "I used to consider myself too rational, and not
emotional enough. Now I'm not sure."
"If it's any consolation," he said, "one can't be entirely
rational. Rationality can provide means, but not ends. First,
one must have desires to be satisfied. Once the brute needs of
food, drink, and warmth are supplied, the ends tend to be the
satisfaction of emotional needs. The rational person meets as
many of those ends for oneself and for others as possible. Now
the only question is what are your ends." He gave her a hug.
"I think that they are incompatible."
"That is close to a description of the human condition. So what
are your preferences, your priorities? Let's stick to this
arena."
"You mean: would I prefer to think of myself as moral or to have
the sort of pleasure that you gave me ten minutes ago?"
"Are those incompatible? I would think not. The moral ideal is
to have the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Certainly, your own happiness is one part of that. Indeed, the
times when any person has it in his power to multiply happiness
on an extended scale, in other words to be a public benefactor,
are exceptional; and on these occasions alone is he called on to
consider public utility. On every other occasion, private
utility, the interest or utility of some few persons, is all he
has to attend to. I was very happy with our actions. If you
were, which I have reason to believe, what other persons were
affected?"
"Wouldn't this apply to any clandestine activity? This moves us
perilously close to rationalization."
"Whichever side one takes on moral issues, one risks
rationalization.
"As for clandestine activities," he continued, "many of them
affect others even if they are not found out. If we were to plot
together to burglarize a neighbor, then the neighbor would be
harmed. So mere secrecy does not guarantee that an action--even
a discussion--will affect only the participants. Would you like
it if I were to tell a confidant that you were still a virgin?"
"You promised not to discuss this."
"And I certainly shan't. But the point is that you would be
damaged if I did, even if *that* conversation never got back to
you. I did use the subjunctive, after all."
"All right."
"And the other point is that *any* knowledge of one's sex life is
an intrusion into one's privacy. You wouldn't want our latest
activities known far and wide, and you wouldn't want your
masturbation known; but you wouldn't want your virginity known
either. It's less a matter of shame over the particular state of
your sex life than your sense of privacy regarding all of it.
And you are not alone. Just because a couple is married does not
mean that they are indifferent to voyeurs.
"That is one reason that I moved back home after a year in the
dorms. I overheard too much."
"That is the other side of the privacy issue," he said. "Not
only does another's knowledge of my sex life invade my privacy,
but so does my knowledge of his. The law punishes both the
voyeur and the exhibitionist. And in that matter, if not in
all, the law is perfectly correct."
"It would seem to me that people would seek out more privacy than
my roommates did, though."
"Were any of them rubbing their dates' groins in the public
lounges?"
"Heavens no! Not even in the central room of the suite. But I
could *hear* them making love."
"That was probably all the privacy that they could achieve, or at
least all that they could afford. In an earlier day, men weren't
allowed in women's rooms and vice versa. Students did engage in
mutual masturbation in the public lounges. Like your dorm-mates,
they substituted a pretense of privacy for the real thing.
Everybody pretended that they didn't see, as students today
pretend that they don't hear. Never assume that something is not
a value to a person just because another thing is a greater value
to her."
She could see where that argument was leading. Her roommates
valued the happiness of the sex act above the pain of being
overheard. And, for that matter, above the pain caused by the
embarrassing intrusion of overhearing two others. If she had
been sexually active, would she have traded the freedom of that
dorm room for the privacy of her home? Or would she have found
some way to combine both? Sneaking a boy into her father's house
would have been dishonest, but would she have done it? Whatever
the behavior of her experienced friends, she couldn't imagine
beginning her sex life in either situation.
"I see where you are going," she said.
"Is not that where logic is taking us, given your observations?"
"I suppose so. You did promise me that you wouldn't make an
*emotional* argument."
"I took it that emotion was the essence of your objection.
Argument, in the sense of debate rather than acrimony, was a
predictable part of any discussion with me."
How true. For that matter, any discussion of hers was likely to
be a debate. "It was the only predictable part. Thank you for
the rest." And, truly out of gratitude, she kissed him. The
last hour, however, allowed scant room for kisses of mere
gratitude. Her passion rose as his tongue explored her mouth.
Soon their arms were entangled in an attempt to hold each other
in that clumsy position. He broke the kiss and rose. Before she
could protest his absence, he pulled her up into his arms. In
this position, he needed to bend over to reach her face with his.
When he straightened and pulled her into a tight hug, the feel of
his stiffness against her stomach was a pleasure. She pressed
herself against it while he kneaded her buttocks. After he broke
the hug to give her another deep kiss, he led her down his long
hall.
On her way, she wondered if she were going to yield to him.
Everything so far had been fine, indeed luscious. But he seemed
to take her consent for granted, and she hadn't consented. This
conflict faded when he gave her another kiss in his bedroom.
"Sorry for the mess," he said. "I hadn't expected this." The
room was certainly fit for company by dorm standards. Only two
books were on his bed, and the three on the floor were closed and
piled neatly. Most of the books not neatly shelved were on the
night stands, and the only clothing in sight was a bathrobe. It
even smelled clean.
When he resumed the kiss, his hands went to the buttons on her
blouse. His mouth followed his hands. He was kneeling in front
of her, kissing her breasts, when her knees sagged. He gently
helped her lie down on the bed.
He kissed all of her face before returning to her mouth. Then he
kissed her ear and neck on his way to her breast. With her left
breast in his hand and her right breast in his mouth, he seemed
to have reached a plateau of contentment. At least he made no
move to go further until her own need made her clutch his arm.
He raised himself from her breast, which was *not* what she had
wanted, and looked her in the eye. "How do I undo this skirt,"
he asked.
This was the critical point. She had been swept past her limits,
just like other girls. It hadn't really taken logic, just a
little patience. Well, she was on the pill; and Mr. Bentham,
"Jeremy" she corrected herself, would never tell. He moved up as
she rolled away from him. Then she reached back. "I'll undo
it."
He helped her off with the skirt, and moved to hang it over a
chair. She took advantage of that moment to rise and remove her
blouse, which had become rather wrinkled. Then she rolled the
bedclothes down to give them a clean field of action. At least
she hadn't been swept past her limits in the back seat of a car.
While she was standing there, he kissed the top of her head and
hugged her from behind. His hands swept up her belly to hold her
breasts. Then he helped her back on the bed. Her legs were
still over the edge, which seemed a strange position. Also, he
was still fully dressed. But while he kissed her and stroked
her, the sensations of the present were much more interesting
than some mechanics in the future.
His tongue touched hers gently while his hand rubbed up and down
her body. She spread her legs in silent invitation, but he
ignored that gesture for a moment. When his hand did pass
downward, it was with his nails tickling her belly. They combed
through the hair on her mound. Then he clasped her intimately.
However much she had desired this, however much she wanted his
caresses there, however much warning his approach had given her,
she also felt modest and timid. She closed her legs, trapping
his hand.
"Darling Jo," he said. "Dearest Johanna." His mouth left hers
then, not down some teasing path but directly onto her left
nipple, which had been aching for it. She sighed and relaxed her
legs. At first the licking and sucking at one breast, the
pressure of his chest against the other, the hand holding her so
warmly, satisfied her needs. Soon, they merely intensified them.
His mouth moved to her other breast while his fingers played over
her labia. Never stroking, never still, he lightly touched one
lip, gently pressed the other, and then pushed hard against her
mound.
He kissed across the underside of her breast and down her
abdomen. When he finally parted her labia and two fingers
stroked inside, she forgot his mouth entirely. Her hips pushed
her mound against his hand, trying to rub around his fingers
harder and faster than he was willing to move.
He was kneeling between her legs. "At last," one part of her
mind said; "but he didn't ask!" another complained. If she was
not sure that she was ready to accept him within her quite yet,
she was eager for the stimulation that entrance would bring;
anything to relieve the slowly- building, teasing, tension. Then
she felt his lips on her mound and found that she had not even
considered his actual intent.
Something was wrong with this. "Dirty!" she said, and began to
push him away.
"I brushed my teeth just before your visit," he said. That
wasn't what she had meant. As his tongue touched the apex of her
sensitivity, though, she forgot her objection. When she lifted
her hips off the bed to ease his access, she stiffened. Then
fire shot through her.
She was distantly conscious of being in his hands as she trembled
in joy, and trembled, and trembled, and trembled. The tension
flowed out of her into his mouth. When all that tension was
gone, he kept sucking and licking; she kept shuddering and
writhing.
When he finally lowered her hips back on the bed, she lay like a
rag doll. The only muscles she could use were those gasping in
air. He kissed thighs and mound and belly. Then he rose and
swung her into the bed. He kissed her forehead as he tucked a
sheet around her.
There was a period while she got her breath more nearly under
control, that she couldn't spare any attention for him. Either
the lassitude or the suffusing pleasure would have taken all her
attention by itself. When next she noticed him, he was getting
into bed beside her and throwing a comforter over them both.
She gradually organized her consciousness again while he kissed
her forehead and upper face. She pulled his mouth to hers for a
real kiss. Soon, however, she had to break it to breathe again.
Her left arm was trapped under the covers. "Give me a little
space," she said. Obediently, he rolled away. She pulled her
arm out and rolled so she was facing him with that arm under her
pillow.
She could figure out their positions by this time. For some
reason, they were near the foot of the bed, far from the
headboard. She had a pillow, though. He was under the comforter
but on top of the sheet, dressed in a tee shirt. And what else?
When he had kissed her, she had smelled soap and toothpaste.
That reminded her. "You weren't what I meant was dirty."
"I know, but that would have been a more reasonable worry. Many
more germs reside in the mouth than in the vagina, and the mouth
has more protection against infectious invasions."
"But you washed afterward."
"I found your taste and odor ambrosial," he said, "and intensely
aphrodisiacal. I think that almost any man would have found it
the same. Whether you would is another question. Also, while I
find it attractive-- because I find it attractive--I also find it
disturbing. Then too, it satiates the olfactory nerves after a
while; one can't have that particular sensation all the time. I
prefer to save it for when it is appropriate."
She had listened to nothing after the word, "odor." "I smell?"
Then, remembering Johnson's distinction, "I have an odor?"
"A delightful one. If humans had the olfactory acuity of dogs,
you would be attracting suitors from miles around. Luckily, we
don't. Actually, it is the basis of your lovely taste. Have
you ever noticed that most of your favorite foods taste like
cardboard when you have a bad cold?"
She knew that the nuances of taste were in the nose, and
suspected that he knew that she knew. "Are you trying to change
the subject?"
"Well, yes," he admitted. "In our culture, odor is always taken
to be a bad odor. Anyway, you taste delightful. Experience
tells me, however, that you wouldn't if I had a cold. I won't
say that it spoils all the pleasure of the sex act, but it
reduces a sensuous delight to mere rutting." She could suddenly
see the point to his diversion. If the sense of smell was
critically important to his enjoyment, then her odor couldn't be
offensive to him. She had, after all, showered that morning.
"Even so, I'm glad that we have lost that acuity of smell."
"Quite right. You wouldn't want passers by in the street knowing
that your vulva smelled particularly erotic. Nor would you want
them knowing when it didn't. We are back to the matter of
privacy again."
"I don't know. I can understand what you are saying, I certainly
feel that I want my privacy. But there were a lot of times in my
life when I didn't want my father to know what I was doing..."
"And most of those times you were doing wrong?" he guessed.
"Pretty much. How do you distinguish between what is really in
the interests of privacy and what is really your trying to keep
your wrong- doing secret."
"Let me answer that from an extreme case." She nodded. "Take a
case when a popular boy with what looks like a promising future
breaks into a neighbor's house and trashes it. Having come home
to a violated house, the neighbors aren't particularly mollified
to discover that the damage was done by a kid that they had
liked; the parents of the boy, on the other hand, have their
lives destroyed by the revelation that their pride and joy is a
criminal. Is there not more pain than pleasure in revealing the
truth?"
"You make it seem so, yet I would expect the police to reveal it
if they had that knowledge."
"Your instincts worked well on that question," he said, "but your
mind shouldn't have been fooled by my prestidigitation."
"You directed my attention away from the community?" Didn't he
mean something like "prestilinguation"? And that described more
than his speech.
"Yes. There is a fairly good chance that the undetected juvenile
delinquent will repeat his crimes. More to the point, every
honest person has the desire to live in a community where any
burglary is solved. Solving a particular one contributes little
pleasure to any particular person not intimately involved, but it
increases the rate of solution. So any revelation of the
identity of burglars increases in small measure the happiness of
a great number of people."
"And revelation of the identity of persons engaging in sex does
not?"
"Does it make you particularly happy unless you hold a grudge
against the parties?"
"Not really."
"And so say most of us," he said. "All honest persons have the
desire that burglars be known. Most of us have the desire that
sexual activities, or sexual inactivity for that matter, be
secret. Now, if you were eight rather than eighteen, the general
desire would be to have any activity with another person be
known. At your age, however greatly James wishes that you
maintain your purity, he doesn't really want to know whether you
have. The generality of the race merely wishes that their own
privacy be unbreached; that is best served by having everybody's
activity in this arena kept decently secret."
"Call 911 when you see a burglary, and pretend ignorance when you
see a rendezvous?"
"That sounds like a good rule of thumb."
Their heads were about a foot apart. She could see his
individual eyelashes despite her lack of glasses. "I can't
believe that I am having this discussion in bed. It sounds like
a seminar."
"You will find, dearest Jo, as you go through life, that people
discuss anything and everything in bed. Poets may call it shrine
of Aphrodite; couples find it is the last chance to discuss
mortgage payments before they drop off to sleep. Anyway, this is
the discussion that you scheduled with me."
"More or less."
"Yes. I tend to digress. From the moment that I kissed you,
however, my motives were suspect. You had grounds for suspecting
that my arguments could be used to justify anything."
"And you showed that they didn't."
"And so, if I show that they justify our having intercourse, that
argument will be more credible, intellectually."
"Is that where this discussion is going? What if I'm not
emotionally ready?"
"Then some young man will reap the benefits of my labor. The
total happiness of mankind will still be increased. Anyway, it
seems to me that we have only covered the intellectual dimension
of the morality of what you had already done. We set ourselves a
more difficult task when we scheduled this appointment."
"There *have* been distractions."
"I'm sorry," he said.
"Well, I'm not. I enjoyed those distractions very much. I
suspect that I owe you some distractions of your own, but ..."
"You don't owe me a thing, except to answer my questions
seriously. That is what you promised. As for the
'distractions,' I enjoyed them as well. Anyway, the objections
to full intercourse that you have raised so far are that your
father would object if he knew, and that commencement seems to
imply continuation. Are there others?"
"Well, somehow, this discussion seems awfully cold-blooded. And
it's *my* body!" This discussion hadn't seemed to acknowledge
that.
"Certainly. You decide. We are only discussing the abstract
ethical question. If my comments haven't acknowledged your
control, it is because the level of moral principles must presume
that. Of course, I shouldn't rape you. But we were discussing
not what I should do (or not do); we were discussing what you
should do. Which presumes that you are in control. And I
suggest that this level of discussion should be cold-blooded. Or
would you want an emotional argument?"
"Hoist by my own petard, am I?"
"Really, you know," he said, "the ethical question is not whether
you should have intercourse, but whether you should resist having
intercourse. For that matter, should you resist the levels of
intimacy that you have accepted heretofore? When you are on the
threshold of crossing your limits, should your moral convictions
lead you to resist? Nothing that I have said is intended to
imply that you should engage in intercourse when you do not
desire to.... Although I could warn you that, having gone this
far, I am in serious medical danger if we do not complete the
act."
Coming at the end of his serious discourse, this caught her off
guard. "But could you tell me that with a straight face?" she
asked through her laughter. Only this morning, she suddenly
realized, she could not have imagined Jeremy as speaking with
anything but a straight face. Of course, she couldn't have
imagined calling him "Jeremy" either.
"So, you are the one to decide. Is that a reason to decide that
you will always resist?"
"It doesn't seem to be."
"Deciding in advance is coldblooded. (An interesting opinion
from a woman who is taking the pill just in case.) Is that a
reason to decide to resist letting your emotions sweep you
overboard?"
"It doesn't seem so."
"Going forward would increase the chasm between reality and your
father's illusions. Is that sufficient motive for you to deny
yourself what your contemporaries tell you is a great pleasure?"
"No!" She was very sure about that.
"Is it sufficient to delay that experience?"
Damn! He had put his finger on a sensitive spot there. (She had
thought of that metaphor quite innocently; but the sensitive spot
where Jeremy had put his finger tingled at the memory.) She
shouldn't be giggling now; this was serious business.
She had been delaying. Really, she would have dismissed any
possibility of a vow of chastity. But neither being found out
nor keeping an embarrassing secret had been particularly
attractive. But Dad had found out, found out more than was true;
and she might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. "No," she
said quietly. The consultation was really over; she'd made her
decision.
"The commencement appears to be irreversible. That creates an
asymmetry between 'yes' and 'no.' That is a reason to delay the
commencement. Is it a sufficient one?"
"No longer."
"And the commencement can be painful. Are this reason, or the
sum of the reasons remaining, sufficient to hold you back?"
"Not really. And my 'commencement' won't be painful. When I
went to student health to get a prescription for the pill, I
talked with the doctor...."
"And she cut your hymen?"
"He told me how to stretch it." She found herself blushing
again. Mercifully, Jeremy didn't mention it this time. He must
have seen it, this entire discussion had been conducted at a
remarkably short distance.
"That leaves only one question," he said. She had hoped that it
would leave none at all. "Would you find it offensive if I were
to attempt to entice you over your set limits?"
She wasn't sure that she had any limits still set. Still and
all, his enticements had been delightful up to now. Maybe he
could try that oral thing again, and she would erase all her
limits in return. She didn't want to say so, though. She was
still somewhat loathe to express such thoughts; and bargaining
over such matters, however likely to increase the sum total of
other pleasures, was unpleasant itself and would dampen her
ardor. On the other hand, he was a man who had proven he could
give her pleasure -- indeed ecstasy, he was someone she
respected, he already knew almost all her secrets and could be
trusted to keep that one as well. But this discussion, however
convincing, was quite recent. She knew herself well enough to
know that she needed time to internalize her decision, to take
the intellectual convictions into herself. But wasn't the
question of what she would take into herself the whole point of
contention? She smiled.
He had been following her expression, and answered her smile with
a wider one of his own. The dear man had misread her. Well, she
was glad that she wasn't *completely* transparent to him. "You
can try, but I can't guarantee my mood." She leaned over to kiss
him. The kiss met an open mouth. He head been about to say
something but soon was cooperating in the kiss. She petted his
side through the thin undershirt. At his waist, she met belted
trousers.
She broke the kiss to comment: "You removed nothing but your
shirt."
"And my shoes and socks. You don't have to guarantee your mood.
Only that my trying is not offensive to you."
"You've been trying all along, and it hasn't offended me yet."
"Very trying."
"My line."
"Don't telegraph it then. Your mouth was better employed a
minute ago." He returned her kiss, beginning closed-mouth. By
the time that he came up for air, he was cupping her breast
through the sheet. His face was just at her focal distance when
his thumb rubbed across her nipple. He probably saw her face
respond; he certainly felt the nipple stiffen. His smile was
triumphant. "Must see," he said. After lowering the covers to
just below her breasts, his hand returned to her breast and
brushed her nipple again. It responded, she responded, and he
smiled again. Then he kissed her left nipple while tweaking the
right one. Arousal shot downward from that double stimulus; she
felt burning hot. She caressed his side, but could only feel
cloth. It wasn't fair.
"It's not fair." He abandoned her left breast to look her in the
eyes again. That was almost as arousing as his kiss had been.
His eyebrows signaled a question. "You have petted all of me,
but I can't touch your skin."
"That has been for your sake, not mine," he said. He rolled away
from her to sit on the other side of the bed. She pulled the
sheet up to cover herself. Although no one else could see her,
she felt more embarrassed by her nakedness when he was paying her
no attention. He flipped the comforter off the bed, but had the
sheet over his waist before he began removing his clothes. He
was back beside her before she had seen anything more private
than a blurred glimpse of his buttocks.
She could see the top half of his chest in the present situation,
though. It was pale (this was a man who seldom left his study
except to visit a library or to give a lecture) and surprisingly
hairy. He was watching her face again. "You know now; I wasn't
depriving you. Your seeing me is not fair exchange for my seeing
you."
"I was talking about touch." And when she did touch him, he felt
warm. Even on his shoulders there were hairs which she couldn't
see, and they tickled. The patch in the middle of his chest
felt wiry. Jeremy and she were lying on their sides now, facing
each other. Her left arm was under her pillow, but he had both
arms free. As she played with the hair on his chest, his right
hand matched her motions.
Feeling daring, she moved her hand upwards across his nipple.
His hand took longer to make the trip, but then it had to move in
two dimensions. The thrill that his fingers produced as they
slid over her breast no longer surprised her, but the stiffening
of his nipple did. It was tiny, about the size hers had been
when she was a little girl; but it seemed sensitive to her touch.
She hadn't known that men's nipples were at all responsive. When
her hand wandered further, his stayed on her breast, cuddling it
and brushing over the areola and nipple.
When she passed below his navel, though, his other hand caught
hers through the sheet. "Let's not do that quite yet."
"But you did."
"Quite right. And will do so again, but the idea is to sweep you
over your limits, not to sweep me over mine. And your touch
could quite easily do that. Even if you think that you are ready
for me, isn't it reasonable that my experience qualifies me to
set the schedule?"
"I suppose, but you seem to be going awfully slow."
"I just stopped to allow your hand a little time for touching."
He placed her hand on his shoulder and moved closer. He kissed
her nose before her lips. Soon, his tongue was exploring her
mouth; when it withdrew, hers pursued. He sucked it gently while
licking the underside.
When he broke away to kiss and lick a path towards her ear, she
found that they were in a close embrace. Her breasts were
pressed into his hairy chest, her legs were against his, but he
was bent enough so that their middles were apart. He licked her
ear until she squirmed. Her left arm was feeling trapped, but
when he pressed her back she could move it down. She put both
hands on his face and brought it back where it belonged. This
kiss was longer but calmer. His hand now rested on the upper
slope of her left breast with only his thumb moving on her
nipple. His other hand moved continually, though, petting her
side down to her hip before moving up to tickle her ear or brush
over her nipple.
When he left her mouth this time, it was to kiss her right
breast. He nibbled down from her shoulder, up the slope, licked
the areola for a moment, pecked at the top of her nipple, and
then kissed down the underside. After licking that area, he
kissed back up towards the top. As he got near, his fingers
combed over her mound. He brushed his fingers down the insides
of her thighs while he licked all over her areola. His fingers
came up as his lips enveloped her nipple, and his mouth began a
gentle suction. His hand pressed between her thighs, just
touching the lips between them.
Her nipple followed his rising lips until it popped out.
"Johanna," he said very softly, but making it sound like a call
from far away, "Jo Hannn Na!" She spread her legs, spread them a
little more when he pressed against them. His hand brushed
upwards again, and paused with his fingers against her outer
lips. He kissed her nose, and then her mouth lightly. "Thanks."
Then he was kissing the lower slope of her left breast, moving
upwards as slowly as he had done on her right. Meanwhile, he
parted her outer lips and then her inner ones. He sucked hard on
her nipple as he stroked upwards within her valley. He stopped
the suction just before his finger slid across her clitoris.
Each sensation increased her excitement.
He kissed her mouth while a finger, and then two fingers, slid
through her valley. He explored it all, only occasionally
touching her most sensitive point. His kiss firmed, becoming
much more aggressive than his mouth ever had been with hers, just
before one of his fingers slid inside her. She felt occupied,
and a little stretched. She must have reacted, because he broke
the kiss. "Hurt?" he asked.
"It's not quite a hurt. It's just pressure. I didn't stretch
myself as much as I had thought."
"I think that the skin is gone. The muscles are still tight.
That's all right, muscles are made to stretch and recover. Let
me take care of it." And take care of it he did. He kissed each
breast in turn while his finger pressed her in every direction.
He withdrew his finger to stroke up her valley and then returned.
His second entry seemed easier, and each one after that easier
still. On one withdrawal, he began kissing down from her breasts
across her abdomen. Then he had reversed himself in the bed to
lie with his face against her hip.
His hands urged her over on her side and raised her right leg.
She cooperated eagerly, anticipating his mouth. Resting his head
on her left thigh, he began to lick her outer lips. She had to
let her leg fall, but he didn't complain.
His groin was within eight inches of her face. It was the first
adult phallus that she had ever seen live, as opposed to
photographed or drawn. She owed herself a close examination, but
the sensations from his mouth and wandering hands were too
distracting.
One of his hands played with her nipples while another clenched
her right buttock. His tongue stroked her valley from top to
bottom. Her body tensed and straightened when he pulled her
against him for a long sucking kiss right *there*. Then his
tongue was flicking rapidly back and forth over her core. She
flamed, flamed again, flamed repeatedly until she collapsed.
He rolled her over, got them both covered. He had two fingers
inside her before she could breathe again. He kissed her face
gently. The odor was barely detectable. Then his fingers were
moving inside her, and his tongue was licking her breasts. This
was too much. His fingers were more than she could comfortably
hold; his teasing was more stimulus than she could handle. She
really didn't have any strength left for the response he was
seeking.
On the other hand, and the expression brought a smile to her
lips, the pleasure that he had brought her was light years ahead
of what she could summon by her own hand. She'd stop him if
there was any real pain. What she felt was more like fullness.
It was only slightly uncomfortable, and also faintly sexy.
Then he sucked on her nipple and brushed her labia with his
thumb. Make that quite sexy. He rolled his fingers around
inside her, paused while he sucked the other breast, pulled
against the front of the tunnel and then pushed against the back.
He kissed her mouth, and the taste was a bit stronger than the
smell had been. It tasted tart and not at all erotic. He licked
his way to her ear and then down her neck. She writhed from the
tickles, but it was arousing in its own way. By the time he
reached her breast, she was comfortable with the slow motion of
his fingers within her. They merely wriggled against each other.
By now, the alternation of licking and blowing on her nipple held
all her attention. She now knew what the tension in her abdomen
presaged, and welcomed it. Indeed, she yearned for it. Then,
when it felt inevitable, Jeremy abandoned her breast to stare
into her face. His face was dear, his attention to her more so;
but how was she going to finish without his attentions to her
breast? "Dearest Johanna," he said. "Come for me, Jo. Come
now." And she did.
Her tension doubled, arching her back. Then she shook. Fire
blazed within her. It flared from her loins to her breasts. Her
skin burned. Her belly throbbed. Her breasts ached for his
touch. And, when he did suck the left one, she throbbed all the
more. The arm not touching him was thrashing around on the bed.
Then he abandoned her breast. A new fire throbbed through her,
slamming her legs down as it raised her belly. When the
throbbing had slowed, he was kneeling between her legs. His
phallus was thrust out proudly, and he was rolling something
white down it. He didn't need to do that.
His fingers withdrew to her entrance. They were replaced by
something cooler and slicker. "Say yes, Jo." Unable to speak,
she nodded; when he didn't respond, she nodded more vigorously.
"Oh darling!" he said.
She was stretched a bit more, but that was less important than
his face with beaming eyes coming closer towards hers. His hips
were pressed into her thighs, and she let them ride higher as
they hugged him. Then he was kissing her, filling her mouth as
he filled her tunnel. He straightened above her, rising a little
and gazing down. He rolled back and forth a little, ending even
deeper within her and with a hand on each breast. "Are you all
right?" he asked.
"I'm fine. When are you going to move?"
His answer was silent. He withdrew slowly and pushed back inside
even more slowly. She found that she was more comfortable with
her legs around his waist. His hands toyed with her breasts as
he moved more nearly out and more fully in. The motions began to
excite her, in a way slightly different than his hands or mouth
had done. She pushed back against his motion, clumsily at first.
Then she crossed her ankles and pulled him into her with her
legs. Catching his rhythm, she moved her body to meet his and
her legs to clutch him to her.
"Oh Jo," he said. And then a long "Ohhh" on his withdrawal
followed by "Jo - Hann - Na" on his thrust. His gaze rose from
hers, and she found herself watching his chin as it moved from
the level of hers when he was barely within her to the level of
her eyes when she was totally filled. She was tensing; the long
slow strokes which had delighted her moments ago were no longer
enough. Something changed in his motions. Then he rolled to her
right.
He abandoned her left breast to clutch her thigh. She felt his
finger part her lips as his stroking continued. But it was still
too slow. She pressed up at him sooner, pulled her legs into his
buttocks more firmly. He sped up, but never enough. She found
herself grasping his hips with her hands. "Johanna," he said,
"Darling Jo!" Her skin was burning. He sped almost enough. She
could feel the fire on the other side of some immaterial wall,
but it was not burning through. His finger touched her center.
The fire raged hotter. He stroked her again.
The fire burned through! She soared. She throbbed. And this
time she could feel that she was throbbing around something. Her
hands clutched his buttocks. Her tunnel clutched Jeremy himself.
"Johanna!" he said. Now he was going fast enough. He rocked
back despite her clutching hands and tensing legs. He drove into
her. Now he, too, was pulsing.
"Jo," he said. "Jo. Jo! Oh Johanna!" The last was nearly a
scream. Then he was lying fully on her. She throbbed around him
again. Then a pause as if at the top of a cliff. When she
throbbed once more she could feel him slip out. The waves still
ran through her, but more slowly, more weakly. Finally, they
stopped.
He lay on her for another minute, maybe more. He moved off
despite her attempts to hold him. He hadn't needed to do that,
but it did make breathing easier. He held her arm, kissing her
wrist between gasps. Then he pulled the sheet over them both.
She *had* been getting chilly.
"Dearest Johanna," he said. She had been almost asleep. He
kissed her forehead. "I can't say that I feel the least regret
that I forced the pace this morning, but I feel more than a
little guilt."
"Don't. The multiplication of happiness, as my father always
taught me, is the object of virtue. I'm happy. I think that you
are...."
"More than words can express."
"And no-one else is really involved. There are only two more
things that I could desire from this um... interview."
His smile broadened. "Your father's continued ignorance and..."
Yes, that too.
"Well, three things then. I guess I'm spoiled in some ways. I
haven't had a huge clothes allowance, or a private phone since my
tenth birthday like many of my classmates. But my curiosity has
been satisfied all of my life. I've seen pictures."
"You want to examine my genitalia. Fair enough, but let me get
cleaned up first." He got out of bed on the other side, but came
all the way around it before removing the condom. Implicitly, he
was allowing her to observe this action before he was clean.
"You didn't need to do that, you know."
He didn't answer until after he had come back. "I thought that
you might be curious about that, too. I brought a soft cloth; do
you want to wipe yourself off? I am more than willing to do that
job."
She took the cloths. Modesty was incongruous by this time, but
she felt modest all the same. He turned his back and rummaged in
his closet while she wiped herself with a damp cloth and then a
dry one. He returned with a robe. "I prefer you au naturel," he
said, "but you have your choice." He didn't look away while she
put on the robe.
"You didn't need to use it at all. I'm on the pill."
He lay on his side atop the sheet. "Your best protection against
disease," he said while she began her inspection, "is to avoid
partners with any likelihood of having a disease. Condoms are
insurance." His phallus was smaller than it had looked earlier,
and dangled down sideways. When she came further forward, he
opened his legs.
"May I touch? Did you think that I might have a disease?"
"It would have been rather late in the day for me to worry about
that. It was more for your future protection. You won't want to
tell your next partner that he has to wear a condom because you
only let men you trust enter you unclad." That took care of the
next question as well. The two of them didn't have a future.
Well, she hadn't expected any relationship when she had knocked
on the door. He rolled on his back and spread his legs. "This
position is better for touching."
When she moved it aside to examine his scrotum, his phallus felt
so limp. It had felt so firm entering her. It also seemed to
twitch in her hand. The testes were loose in his sack, even
after it seemed to shrink slightly at her touch. "Be very gentle
with those," he said. "The other you can't hurt unless you
really try to. And what was the second thing? Third counting
your father. Or should I wait until you have finished your
explorations?"
"I just wondered whether we would do this again." His phallus
twitched then, too. It must be something that the male organ did
occasionally.
"That is your decision. I certainly would want to see you again.
On the other hand, there are clear limits on our relationship. I
couldn't ask for an exclusive one. Think of the many boys who
would be deprived of the pleasure of your company. And,
consequently, I can't offer much of a social life." She took her
time examining the head of his phallus. It wasn't much different
from the pictures in the books, but she needed time to answer.
Then she had it.
"Next time, can I see you erect?"
"Darling girl. You can see anything that I can provide. Next
time, will you tell me how your social life has progressed?"
Quid pro quo? "You want me to sleep with other men, don't you?"
"It is, as you noted, your body. I want you to give younger men
the chance of sweeping you over those limits. I care for you.
If I foresee -- even if you disagree with me -- that you have set
yourself on a path that will lead to your future unhappiness,
then I will be unhappy in the present. (I could have described
the time sequence better there.)"
"I understand it. I care for you, too."
"So long as we understand that a great deal of these feelings are
paternal and filial, we're in agreement. When you find a partner
you think is worthy of your exclusivity, my feelings will be
quite ambivalent. Do you want to shower before you go?"
Here's your hat, what's your hurry. Was that his attitude now?
"I think so."
"It's almost lunch time, and you don't want to go out right after
a shower. Why don't you shower now, or the tub for that matter?
I'll get lunch started. There's nothing fancy, I'm afraid. Use
the blue towels, they're clean." He wasn't hurrying her out,
although the world's demands would do that soon enough. He
bustled into the kitchen, and she fetched her underclothes before
starting the shower.
They would talk at lunch. The future was tenuous, but futures
usually are.
The End
The Problems of Utilitarianism
Uther Pendragon
anon584c@nyx.net
1998/11/30
2001/07/27
For another story involving a woman's first time, see:
berries.txt
"Berries"
This story is indexed in the subdirectory:
mf.txt
Mf Older Men Younger Women
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